100 Hikes

By the Numbers (2 of 10)

I’m really happy how this project is turning out. Taking time to make each hike’s number using materials found on the hike has caused me to concentrate more on looking at my surroundings as I hike. I try to select a material that 1) is abundant and 2) won’t...

Hike 15 – Mishe Mokwa Trail to Sandstone Peak

While spending a week in Los Angeles for the private screening of Mile… Mile & A Half, a documentary about the John Muir Trail that I worked on, I had a chance to go hiking on one of my favorite trails of the Los Angeles area: Mishe Mokwa Trail in the Santa Monica...

Hike 14 – Stough Canyon

I was invited down to Los Angeles for the private screening of the documentary I worked on, Mile… Mile & a Half. While there for a few days, I had the opportunity to do two hikes. This was the first of the two. I lived in Southern California for decades, long enough...

Hike 13 – Smith Rock State Park

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: the hardest part of a day hike is finding the motivation to get to the trailhead. For this hike, it took me a good part of the day to find enough motivation to drive north to Smith Rock State Park near Terrebonne, Oregon....

Hike 12 – Opal Creek Ancient Forest

As I returned to my car after this hike, I was soaked to the bone. In fact, everything I carried with me was wet. The pages of my journal were rippling, my camera had fogged the lens with condensation and stopped working.* My iPhone wasn’t doing well either, having been...

Hike 11 – Shevlin Park II

I’ve already blogged about Shevlin Park (hike#3), you might recall. On that hike, most of it was through the dark using a headlamp. Not the best type of hike to take a lot of photos. Therefore, I’ll make up for that photo-light entry with this photo-heavy entry! ...

By the Numbers (1 of 10)

This is the first of ten installments about my artistic journey I like to call, “The Numbers.” (To read the rest of this series, click here. Along with my big hiking goal, I’ve got a few artistic goals as well. One of them is to create the hike’s...

Hike 10 – Peter Skene Ogden Trail

With visions of kaleidoscopic colors and other-worldly-esque textures still on my mind from my jaunt around Paulina Lake two weeks ago (Hike#9), I wanted to go back and explore more of the dozens of miles of trails found in the Newberry National Volcanic Monument. With a hiking...

Hike 9 – Paulina Lakeshore Loop

It’s taken me a while to work on this post. At first, I wrote a lot about Newberry Crater National Volcanic Monument. I wrote a few paragraphs about its history and how it’s very similar to its neighbor, Crater Lake National Park. I wrote about how this was going...

By the Numbers (2 of 10)

Hike 15 – Mishe Mokwa Trail to Sandstone Peak

Hike 14 – Stough Canyon

Hike 13 – Smith Rock State Park

Hike 12 – Opal Creek Ancient Forest

Hike 11 – Shevlin Park II

By the Numbers (1 of 10)

Hike 10 – Peter Skene Ogden Trail

Hike 9 – Paulina Lakeshore Loop

"I resolve to hike one hundred times and seven hundred trail miles by 2014."

Progress Report – Sept 2012

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